Australia, June 3 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 5:
1. The underlying proceedings concern a request to the respondent under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) (GIPA Act) for access to a call recording, call transcript and a complete Police incident report. The matter came to the tribunal for administrative review, pursuant to s 63 of the Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW). The tribunal affirmed the respondent's decision: FVA v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force [2023] NSWCATAD 236. The appellant appealed to the Appeal Panel of the tribunal (the appeal) and was ultimately successful; whereupon the matter was remitted to the tribunal for rec...